Helen Keller Quotes (124 Quotes)

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren plac

God, Himself, is not secure, having given man dominion over His work.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.